Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Discovered half a century ago in Ethiopia, the bones of Lucy, the most famous of the Australopithecus, are set to be ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

Lucy’s bones leave Ethiopia for a historic first-ever European display; Prague museum lands the ultimate fossil exhibit.

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The bones that make up Ardi's feet suggest that humans and chimpanzees evolved separately. Lucy is also a female human-like fossilised skeleton, and dates from 3.2 million years ago. Lucy's bones ...

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...